Ponta dos Meros light at 23-13.57S 044-20.83W is unlit until 26 September; cancel advisories.
South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 638/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-26 01:21Z
A later message explicitly cancels this notice. Cancellation ends the notice; the later message must be checked for any statement about recovery or continuing danger.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-03-31 01:05Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-28 19:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- South Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is -23.226, -44.347. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Ponta dos meros light 23-13.57S 044-20.83W unlit until 24 marlater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the South Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2026-03-31 01:05Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-09-27 00:01Z
- sea
- South Atlantic Ocean
- position
- -23.226, -44.347
- nearest port
- Rio de Janeiro · 67 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
SOUTH ATLANTIC. BRAZIL. 1. PONTA DOS MEROS LIGHT 23-13.57S 044-20.83W UNLIT UNTIL 26 SEP. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 635/26. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 270001Z SEP 26.
Reading this warning
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- Unlit / extinguished
- A light, buoy or structure that is not showing its charted light.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
327 within 180 nm since 1999 · 4 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- Ponta dos meros light 23-13.57S 044-20.83W unlit until 24 mar2026-09-26
- Odas buoy established in 24-06.36S 045-38.78W2026-03-30
- Laje da conceicao light 24-14.18S 046-41.46W unlit until 24 sep2026-03-30
- Yellow odas buoy established in 24-08.60S 045-40.70W2024-04-25
- Ponta grossa light 23-46.60S 045-13.84W unlit until 14 aug2024-02-17
- Ubatuba light 23-27.61S 045-01.15W unlit until 03 aug2024-02-06
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 05:02Z; source collection times vary.
Nav aids
Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.